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daslog posted:I have a pushmatic at my house. Me too. Thank god somebody started making those again, and tested used ones are available on eBay. Prices were silly before the new ones came out. I had a 20A 240V on on the dryer circuit that kept blowing one leg. Swapped it with the AC one during the winter and the problem disappeared. Got a used one from eBay and no problem since.
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Darchangel posted:Me too. I have no idea what you are talking about but it's very interesting.
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240v appliances typically use (in America at least) two hot wires at 120v so he just grabbed one of the power lines for the ac unit which he's not using because it's winter.
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travisray2004 posted:That is the flashiest battery I've ever seen. Are the labels holographic? Sure is purdy for something most people will not look at twice. Here's another look for routine oil check. Getting maximum use from the hologram logos on the battery.  What a loving headache.  MASSSSSIIVVEEE ground bus. gently caress SquareD. 
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revmoo posted:240v appliances typically use (in America at least) two hot wires at 120v so he just grabbed one of the power lines for the ac unit which he's not using because it's winter. Yeah, what he said, sorta. AC and dryer both used the same 30A 240V double breakers. Swapped the breaker from the AC's circuit to the dryer's circuit. Dryer circuit stopped tripping. Bought a new (used) one to replace the bad one. Only thing weird about it is the goofy Pushmatic breakers: http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-E...ircuit+breakers Used, tested good original Bulldog replacement from eBay was $30 or so. Worked fine so far.
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Ugh I hated doing the wiring when we built my house. I did the box in our basement since I'm more organised than my dad (and since it was actually simpler because of the lack of power outlets or something like that, I dunno), and the basement is where the geothermal system is, so we had to be able to find the switches we need. My dad did the upstairs while I was on holiday or something, along with fabricating the rest of the geothermal system. It wasn't pretty. My box: http://i.imgur.com/faRIFvHl.jpg Dad's box: http://i.imgur.com/F3TVKk3l.jpg Geothermal setup  :http://i.imgur.com/aRzh0QKl.jpg I'd really like to have an older house one day, but these breaker-boxes I keep seeing out of them are scaring me off  . I seem to remember my dad opening the breaker box at our house in Australia, looking at it for a second, then closing it and walking away looking very frustrated. I can't imagine trying to fix something like what you have going on...edit: Didn't mean to threadjack, sorry Sock 
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Jan 30, 2013 09:33
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Tusen Takk posted:Ugh I hated doing the wiring when we built my house. I did the box in our basement since I'm more organised than my dad (and since it was actually simpler because of the lack of power outlets or something like that, I dunno), and the basement is where the geothermal system is, so we had to be able to find the switches we need. My dad did the upstairs while I was on holiday or something, along with fabricating the rest of the geothermal system. It wasn't pretty. Was it because it had the special wire with crimp thing for tamper proofing that they put on all of them? The power company / meter reader checks none of them have been tampered with. It's also due to the meters being in the same box. Because anybody would be able to open them up and disconnect the meter neutral and get free power otherwise.
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Tusen Takk posted:Geothermal setup Might as well take a steaming poo poo on those pipes as it will do more to insulate than that lovely Home-Depot expanded foam insulation. Especially where you taped the poo poo out of it, thus ruining the air-spaces in the insulation. If it's chilled, slap on some armaflex. Otherwise, buy some fiberglass peel-and-stick from an industrial insulation supplier. It is WAY better than the consumer grade split expanded foam. The fiberglass comes wrapped in a vapour barrier that keeps sweating to a minimum. It'll have an adhesive on the "white paper (ASJ)" that seals the lap as you install. Cut your elbows in a miter box and you'll have perfect stovepipe corners. I probably don't know what I'm taking about.
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Sockington posted:Might as well take a steaming poo poo on those pipes as it will do more to insulate than that lovely Home-Depot expanded foam insulation. Especially where you taped the poo poo out of it, thus ruining the air-spaces in the insulation. Actually, you do. As I recall, we only used the H-D crap as a "temporary" fix for inspection. Then winter came and we only had $200 electric bills (all appliances, hot water heater, and the geothermal unit are all electric) and I guess at that point it wasn't cost effective. My dad did thermodynamics and efficiency when he worked for GM so I wonder how much our bills would be with the better insulation. The pipes that lead to and from the lake are super insulated, I know that, as are the pipes inside the unit itself. We ran pipes from the bottom of the lake and pump water in to cool the air in the summer and put the heat from the air into the water, and in the wintertime we pull the heat from the water and put the cold from the air back into it. The whole system, while functional, is a mess and would need to be overhauled if we ever wanted to sell this house. Good info sock! I'll check into it  Edit: General, I don't actually know, I assumed it was because the box was a mess but it could have been high metre readings or high power usage 
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Jan 30, 2013 23:39
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Man I love this kind of stuff.  You guys should really crost-post all the "fun" pictures into the crappy construction thread. It's basically the Horrible Mechanical Failures thread of DYI. The houses I've been in have had some really questionable plumbing decisions, but thankfully have been electrically sound. I would NOT want to deal with that mess.
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Holy poo poo the glass chimney. 
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It is actually pretty impressive how often people think "holy poo poo, I can use a Folgers can."
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I guess that I've been lucky that the 2 homes I've owned didn't have much handyman work done to them before I bought them, so they were pretty much original. The bad thing about that was the iron water pipe that was 75% blocked by hard water deposits at the old house and most of the current house is on 2 fuses. And apparently no one else wants to remove dead trees. I do bad things to houses, but at least I have the tendency to overbuild instead of using a friggin coffee can for furnace exhaust. Seat Safety Switch posted:It is actually pretty impressive how often people think "holy poo poo, I can use a Folgers can."
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Tusen Takk posted:Ugh I hated doing the wiring when we built my house. I did the box in our basement since I'm more organised than my dad (and since it was actually simpler because of the lack of power outlets or something like that, I dunno), and the basement is where the geothermal system is, so we had to be able to find the switches we need. My dad did the upstairs while I was on holiday or something, along with fabricating the rest of the geothermal system. It wasn't pretty. What, no pics of your mom's box? 
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Jealous Cow posted:What, no pics of your mom's box? I can get you a shot of my toolbox, if you'd like  Actually, on that topic, I'm heading in this morning to put the "boys" on inactive duty. Won the war, time for early retirement. I also emailed the MTO contact again asking if another phone conversation would move things along with the MR2. Finally, someone from Detroit was interested in my 4AG(Z)E stuff, so there's some progress!
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Sockington posted:I'm heading in this morning to put the "boys" on inactive duty. Won the war, time for early retirement. Don't look down. The pain/discomfort is manageable, but the swollen, black-and-blue groin 
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Bucephalus posted:Don't look down. The pain/discomfort is manageable, but the swollen, black-and-blue groin The pain was less than freezing at the dentist. That was so pain free and fast. I walked in at 9:09am, registered, and was waiting to leave at 9:39am. That includes waiting 10min for the Valium.
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For mine they gave me the valium intravenously, it hit me like a truck and I couldn't stop laughing. The doc was like "you might want to sit still for this" which made me laugh even more. Do what they say, and stay on the couch. Don't try to get up and do things or your recovery will take 3x as long. My boss actually flew his plane the day after his, and he was in pain for weeks. I was back to 100% in 8 days after mine, because I couched it with ice for the weekend. Stay down.
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Yeah, I'm lying in bed with a bag of frozen corn wrapped around the goods. 
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Aw hell don't say that' I'm expecting a phonecall any ...month now. drat you all have such elaborate fuseboxes. Looking through this and then that thisold house set of galleries made me think of this old house. I mean it's only about 90 years old but it's had a lot of fuckery done to it. I saw a few things there I recognised. It also made me think of one other bit of wiring that makes me as paranoid as all hell. The house has an electric water heater outside the bathroom. Fair enough? but the old galvanized electric hot water system with the toilet cistern type setup is in the kitchen roof space. Somebody was nice enough to cap off the end of the pipe going to it but it has wires connected to it. The house was rewired at some point from the old wires in the metal tubes to the modern wires. I know this because there is a literal stack of the empty tubes up there. So this heater was still connected post-rewire. Now that brings us to the fusebox. There's a switch for the current hot water service. It seems to work as it should. There is also a knob with labelling "on, off, off peak". This doesn't seem to do anything. That concerns the hell out of me. Oh also theres a bit of steel running from the house to the laundry building at roof base height with the power and water to the laundry to the shed on it. ...and bits of pine stripping nailed over where window and door frames were eaten by termites. And other such horrors. I'm glad the house is brick. I really am.
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Years ago when my wife and I first married I came close to going under the knife because at the time we didn't want kids. But the day before my appointment I chickened out because the thought of my nutsack being cut open made me want to puke. Good thing because I wouldn't have my son now and I can't imagine life without him. I still don't like the idea getting fixed, I'd probably need to be knocked out or I'd have an anxiety attack or something
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It's no pain at all, really. I went to a non-scalpel clinic. Walked in and registered. Put the freezing patch where the twig meets the berries, plopped a Valium, and waited ten minutes. Doctor chats for 5minutes and gets on with it. The worst part is really the freezing, and it's not even as bad as getting it done at the dentist. Enjoy your condoms, leica. 
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I've got the pull-out method down to a science  [edit] And it's not the pain, I can deal with that, it's the psychological part of knowing my sack is getting cut open and a doctor is in there digging around the innards of my testicles. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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I will have forty kids and my balls will shrivel and die before I ever get fixed. gently caress that.
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I think everyone hopes you never reproduce.
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My psychological comfort about my testicles is more important than my future partner having to carry a human being inside her body and then spit it out of her vagina/have it cut out of her belly. 
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I have two children and the psychological / physical discomfort vs. having more kids is a no brainer. As much as I hate the idea I'm also eagerly awaiting that call. No way am I having any more children. It'd be kind of sad because I really love the first few years but hey that's what grandkids are for, with the added bonus I'll be able to give the little bastards back.
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Tusen Takk posted:I will have forty kids and my balls will shrivel and die before I ever get fixed. gently caress that. Wuss. I'd do it annually if I had to. 90% of modern birth control is dumped on women. When you take one for the team in such a permanent way they tend to get... really appreciative. Seriously, you're in for a treat there Sockman.
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Haha, I've been screwing since I was 16 and have managed not to get any woman prego on accident. I suppose if I had a bunch of bastard children running around I may feel the need to get snipped, but I'm not gonna do it just because I can.
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leica posted:I've got the pull-out method down to a science  Actually, they just cut a little opening, and drag the innards out to have at them. Or at least the little hose from the production facility to the exit. Really not that horrible, amazingly.
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Reading all of this is making me physically hurt.  I'd get snipped if I was worried about kids, but damned if I want to actually think about getting snipped. And they'd have to shovel about 100mg of Valium in me before I'd let any sharp object near my twig and berries.
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some texas redneck posted:Reading all of this is making me physically hurt. I've cut and otherwise damaged myself enough over the years (I work on cars, houses, build/make stuff, and generally played rough as a young 'un - and yet somehow have only had to visit the hospital a few times) that surgeons don't bother me much. I was more concerned about the penis specialist seeing my pathetic below-average junk than anything else.  Fortunately, he was a professional, and made no comment.
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leica posted:I've got the pull-out method down to a science I thought I did too. #3 Son disagrees. Darchangel posted:I was more concerned about the penis specialist seeing my pathetic below-average junk than anything else. Two words: unintentional arousal. Dagen H fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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There's a vasectomy thread in ask/tell if anyone wants more info & goon experiences. Also, if you're too much of a wuss to have a tiny little snip compared to the pain & trauma of having a child, you're a pussy.
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Two words: intrauterine device
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Cakefool posted:There's a vasectomy thread in ask/tell if anyone wants more info & goon experiences. The male contraceptive pill can't come soon enough
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Cakefool posted:Also, if you're too much of a wuss to have a tiny little snip compared to the pain & trauma of having a child, you're a FTFY I am currently child free, but after having a few, I will take one for the team.
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For some stupid reason I just checked to see if there's any vasectomy videos on YouTube. There is, and the thumbs alone made me cringe.
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Bucephalus posted:I thought I did too. #3 Son disagrees. Rookie Cakefool posted:Also, if you're too much of a wuss to have a tiny little snip compared to the pain & trauma of having a child, you're a pussy. Are you a woman?
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